fruiter

plural fruiters

1. Any organism that fruits.

   Hypholoma mushrooms are very prolific fruiters.

   2015, Tradd Cotter, Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation

2. historicalA ship for transporting fruit.
3. derogatoryslangA homosexual man.

   Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the "fruiters" in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]

   2006, William Lipsky, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, page 48

   2 more examples

   They already had some gay friends, though I can't say I liked them very much. My Dad just took it in stride. It'd didn't make any difference between us. My Mom, after about fifteen minutes of silence, said, 'Oh, good, a fruiter—a funny boy. My sister has one.

   2009, Donald H. Clark, Loving Someone Gay, page 179

   'Maybe he's a fruiter,' remarked Tracey in her infuriating accent. 'Now that would be a turn-up for the books, wouldn't it Mike? I have to say I've never warmed to the homosexual community. I'm not what you'd call a bender-befriender. Still, live and let live, I say.'

   2021, Nick Kent, The Unstable Boys

   Synonyms: fruit, batty boy, batty man, botter, bumboy, bum chum, bumder, bummer